Existential Rant about Time
Time does not really exist; only change exists as a constant. The future is a change in the current situation brought on by previous conditions. Time is merely a tool invented by humans to find order and patterns in a complex and chaotic universe. Time is a technological tool for advancement of the human species. For example the calendar is one of the most ancient and most widely used standard for managing our time. More recently we have used the mathematical knowledge and "time knowledge" to predict events in the future. The Y2K phenomenon is merely a lapse in our judgment of the management of time as a tool for the use in computers. Time is so crucial for the advancement of the human race yet it is the least tangible instrument of measurement. Time is merely an illusion we masquerade with as a tool to manage the complexity of a society interacting with a world of matter. The only real substantive "material" is matter. Time is similar to energy in that they are b...